Management

Mattias Falkendal, CEO

Mattias is one of the original founders of Klikki and has been active as an entrepreneur within the internet and advertising businesses since 1996. Prior to KliKKi, Mattias was CEO of one of Scandinavia's most awarded creative digital advertising agencies Lowe Tesch. Prior to Lowe Tesch, Mattias was CEO of Cogent IPC, an international digital brand consulting firm owned by Spray Ventures and the Omnicom Group . Mattias also co-founded Carambole, a pan-European webhosting company, spun-off from Cogent IPC, which was sold to Norwegian Active ISP in 2001. Mattias holds a M Sc in Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship from Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet.

Anders Nygren, Nordic Sales Director

Anders Nygren is an experienced sales and operations executive. In 2002 he joined Campuz Mobile, a swedish mobile operator startup, as responsible for products and processes. Campuz Mobile was during 2005 bought and merged into Vodafone Sweden and Anders became COO of Vodafone Stores AB. After Vodafone was acquired by Telenor, the worlds 7:th largest mobile operator, Anders took over as Head of Telenor Stores and Xpress. This was by then an organization of 500 employees and represented a majority of the consumer sales within Telenor Sweden. Anders has a Master of Science in Management and Engineering from Chalmers University in Gothenburg and ETH in Zurich.

Mikko Knuuttila, Country Manager Finland

Mikko Knuuttila has over 10 years of executive experience in eCommerce and Digital Marketing. He started his career at Saunalahti.fi on of the largest ISP’s and internet portals in early 2000. 2001 he joined Finnair and was in responsible for ecommerce and website development globally. Before joining Klikki Mikko was working for DNA, Finland’s third largest but fastest growing telecom operator. Mikko was heading DNA’s digital marketing and fast growing ecommerce. DNA is one of the most awarded and successful advertisers in Finland, utilizing digital channels broadly. Mikko was recognized as Digital Marketer of the year in 2009. Mikko holds an MBA from Helsinki School of Economics, mastering in international marketing.

Bertil Melchior, COO

Bertil Melchior has an extensive background in online marketing, sales, business development and leadership. He has a track record of expanding business for the companies he works for and is very experienced in managing and delivering online activities for large corporations. Since 1999 he has held strategic positions within the online industry working with business development for companies such as Telia, Eniro and TradeDoubler. Since 2006, he is specializing in driving traffic through SEM, SEO and display advertising. Throughout his career, he has managed business relations, partnerships and negotiations – mainly in the Nordics but also on a European level. Bertil has worked internationally and holds a university degree in International Business Relations and Marketing

Tero Lappalainen, CFO

Before joining Klikki in 2009, Tero Lappalainen was Business Controller and member of the Executive Management Team at ISS Finland.  Prior to that, he held a position as Controller at the Berner company responsible for the business units in Finland, Sweden and Baltic. Tero also worked for Ebookers Finland as financial manager during his studies.  Tero holds a M Sc Economics from Helsinki School of Economics.

Bernt Johansson, CTO and Head of Search

Bernt is one of the leading SEO experts in Europe. He has over 12 years experience from working with the technical and business aspects of SEM, SEO and Analytics, primarily towards multinational corporations. He holds a Master of Applied System Science in Systems Development and Software Engineering degree from Luleå University of Technology and has previously worked for Luleå University of Technology and Metria, the Land Survey of Sweden.